Kendra Albert

Kendra Albert works on numerous projects including H2O/Hack the Casebook, and studies gatekeepers and the role of intermediaries online.

Meg Ambrose

Meg is a doctoral candidate in the interdisciplinary Technology, Media, & Society program at the ATLAS Institute, the University of Colorado. Meg's research interests are on information privacy and security, international information policy, and information science. Her doctoral work is a legal, social, and technical analysis of the right to be forgotten.

Laura Amico

Laura Amico is founder and editor of Homicide Watch, an innovative platform for data-driven coverage of violent crime. She’s a 2012-2013 Nieman-Berkman fellow in journalism innovation at Harvard, where she is studying new methods and best practices for digital beat reporting.

Maurice Ashley

Maurice Ashley, an International Grandmaster of Chess, is a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman's Center working with Berkman's Mindsport Research Network to research and develop curricula centering on how games can be used to effectively impact subject learning online, in classrooms and in libraries around the world.

Bodó Balázs

Bodó Balázs is an economist, assistant professor, and researcher at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Sociology and Communications, Center for Media Research and Education. His academic interests include copyright and economics, piracy, media regulation, peer-to-peer communities, underground libraries, digital archives, informal media economies.

Matthew Battles

Matthew Battles, a senior researcher with metaLAB (at) Harvard, fosters research into the critical and curatorial dimensions of technology in art and culture; advances multidisciplinary, collaborative dimensions of scholarly community; and explores innovative models for publishing.

Matthew Becker

Matt Becker is a JD candidate at Harvard Law School and Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. Matt is interested in intellectual property law, commons-based peer production, and the impact of technology on consumer protection issues.

Dalida María Benfield

Dalida María Benfield is a media artist, activist, and scholar whose work addresses interrelated questions of media representations of gender, race, and nation; media justice; and artists’ and activists’ uses of ICTs globally. As a Fellow at the Berkman Center, she is pursuing a research project on the rhetorical uses of race and gender in the online presence of ICT4D programs.

danah boyd

danah boyd is a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She recently completed her PhD in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley.

Ryan Budish

Ryan Budish is a fellow at the Berkman Center and the Project Director of Herdict, which uses crowdsourcing to present a real-time view of Internet accessibility around the world.

Herbert Burkert

Prof. Dr. Herbert Burkert is President of the Research Centre for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) where he teaches public law, information and communication law. His research interests @Berkman cover law as Information and its role in regulating information flows in society, information technology as object and driver of regulation, and data protection and access to information regimes.

Sandra Cortesi

Fellow at the Berkman Center / Director of Youth and Media

Sandra Cortesi is a Fellow at the Berkman Center and the Director of Youth and Media (www.youthandmedia.org). She is responsible for coordinating the Youth and Media’s policy, research, and educational initiatives.

Juan Carlos De Martin

Juan Carlos De Martin is a Berkman Fellow and co-director of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at the Politecnico of Torino, Italy, which he co-founded in 2006.

Jacques de Werra

Jacques de Werra is professor of contract law and intellectual property law at the Law School of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Jacques researches, publishes and speaks on topics related to various aspects of intellectual property law, contract law, particularly on the commercialization of intellectual property assets by way of transfer of technology, licensing and franchising, IT and Internet law, as well as on alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for IP and technology disputes.

Ruha Devanesan

Ruha Devanesan is Executive Director of the Internet Bar Organization, a nonprofit institute specializing in research on improving access to justice through technology. Her academic interests lie in the use of technology to facilitate conflict resolution, grassroots development and access to culture in the Global South.

Judith Donath

Judith Donath is a Berkman Faculty Fellow, researcher and designer who is interested in questions such as: How do we perceive other people on-line? What does a virtual crowd look like? How do social conventions develop in the networked world?

Borja Echevarría de la Gándara

Borja Echevarría de la Gándara is the deputy managing editor at El País, Spain’s largest daily. As a 2013 Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation, Echevarría will study the structural evolution of newsrooms around the world and how disruptive innovation is altering traditional business and workflow models for news.

Bruce Etling

Bruce Etling is the Director for the Internet & Democracy Project.

Mayo Fuster Morell

Mayo Fuster Morell is currently a Berkman fellow. At the Berkman Center, she is part of the Cooperation group overseen by Yochai Benkler. She will be researching the dimension, evolution and governance of common-based peer production; and the meta-politics derivatives and movement of free culture and digital commons.

Oliver Goodenough

Oliver Goodenough is a Berkman Fellow and Professor at the Vermont Law School.

Eric Gordon

Eric Gordon is a researcher and game designer who investigates how games and social media can enhance civic learning and local engagement. While at the Berkman Center, Eric will study the impact of game-based learning on local civic engagement and explore how new technologies can enhance citizenship and collective efficacy.

Eszter Hargittai

Eszter Hargittai is a fellow at the Berkman Center and is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, where she heads the Web Use Project.

Alison Head

Alison Head is the Executive Director of Project Information Literacy (PIL), a public benefit nonprofit dedicated to conducting ongoing, large-scale research about college students and their research habits and strategies in the digital age.

Jerome Hergueux

Jerome is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Sciences Po (Department of Economics) and the University of Strasbourg (Institute of Political Studies) specialized in behavioral economics and experimental methods. He is a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (2011-2014), where he does most of his Ph.D. work.

Benjamin Mako Hill

Benjamin Mako Hill is an academic, activist, and consultant working on issues of technology, intellectual property, and society. He is currently a researcher and PhD Candidate in a joint program between the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Media Lab and a Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media.

Phillip Hill

Phillip Hill is 3L at Harvard Law School and a 2012–2013 Berkman Student Fellow. His focus is on copyright and trademark law in the modern entertainment industry.

Diana Kimball

Diana is an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School. As a co-creator of ROFLCon, her interest in internet culture runs deep. Most recently, this interest has expressed itself in learning Ruby (a programming language) and applying an open-source ethos to mentoring. She's also exploring the concept of total authorship as it relates to art.

Rosemary Leith

Rosemary is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, joining Berkman’s Internet Robustness team, building awareness and facilitating global partnerships in an effort to support a more stable and reliable Web. She is also a Director of Herdict (Berkman Center) that uses crowdsourcing to present a real-time view of Internet accessibility around the world.

Ching-Yi Liu

Ching-Yi Liu is a Professor of law at National Taiwan University and Principal Investigator of Taiwan's National E-Learning and Digital Archives Program. She is exploring issues related to network neutrality, technology policies related to digital libraries, and freedom of the press in the Internet age.

Maria Löblich

Maria Löblich is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Science and Media Research at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in Germany. Her current research focuses on political processes and regulatory arrangements in internet policy at the national and cross-country comparative level.

Xinlei Lu

Xinlei Lu is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Journalism at Fudan University, Shanghai and is studying how cyber-technology has been employed to prevent HIV/AIDS in the gay community in China, and the political, commercial, and social factors implicated therein.

Jerry Lu

Jerry Lu is currently a public prosecutor at Taipei District Prosecutors Office in Taiwan.

Catharina Maracke

Dr. Catharina Maracke is an associate professor at the Graduate School for Media and Governance, Shonan Fujisawa Campus, at Keio University. Her current work and research interests include copyright law and policy, the interaction between law and new media, and the role of Universities in the development of Internet policies.

Maura Marx

Maura Marx is a Berkman Center fellow and the Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons (OKC), a nonprofit organization that works with libraries to help create the broadest possible public access to knowledge. Since January 2011, Maura is also Director of the Digital Public Library of America Secretariat.

Claire McCarthy

Claire McCarthy is a pediatrician at Children's Hospital Boston and Medical Communications Editor in Children's Department of Marketing and Communications.

Silvio Meira

Silvio Meira holds a BSEE, an MSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in Computing. He is full professor of software engineering at the Center for Informatics at the Federal University of Pernambuco [UFPE] at Recife.

Oluwaseun Odewale

Odewale has degrees in Chemistry (Medicinal Chemistry) and Chemical Engineering Technology. Born in Lagos, South West Nigeria, he also holds professional training diplomas in Community Local Participation (UNICEF); International Elections Observation Missions (KAIPTC/ECOWAS); Mentoring Young Leaders under the Kwame Nkrumah emerging leaders training series, and; the African Contingency Operations and Training Assistance (ACOTA) (ECOWAS) among others.

Jon Penney

Jon is a lawyer, Research Fellow at the Citizen Lab / Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and a doctoral student in information communication sciences at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where his interdisciplinary research explores regulatory chilling effects online.

Alberto Pepe

Alberto Pepe is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Astrophysics of Harvard University and a co-founder of Authorea, a science tech startup. He is interested in the promotion of Open Science and the design and development of the next generation of tools for the collaborative authorship of scientific papers.

Intisar Rabb

Intisar A. Rabb is an assistant professor of law at Boston College Law School--where she teaches comparative Islamic law and legal history, advanced constitutional law, and criminal law--and a faculty affiliate in research at Harvard Law School, Islamic Legal Studies Program.

Justin Reich

Justin Reich is the director of Online Community, Practice and Research at Facing History and Ourselves, an organization devoted to combating bigotry and nurturing democracy through history education. As well, Justin is committed to translating educational research into actionable advice for teachers. He founded EdTechTeacher, a professional development consultancy that helps teachers and schools leverage emerging technologies to develop student-centered, inquiry-based learning environments.

Hal Roberts

Hal Roberts is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He has been the lead researcher for Berkman Center reports on Internet surveillance, filtering circumvention, and distributed denial of service attacks against independent media.

Molly Sauter

Molly Sauter is a Berkman Center fellow in addition to being a graduate student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, and a research assistant at the Center for Civic Media at the Media Lab. As a fellow at the Berkman Center, she will be examining conflicts of anonymity and pseudonymity in different modes of digital activism.

Andy Sellars

Andy Sellars is the Berkman Center's Corydon B. Dunham First Amendment Fellow and a Staff Attorney with the Digital Media Law Project.

Aaron Shaw

Aaron is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on political and economic dimensions of collective action online.

Elizabeth Staksrud

Elisabeth Staksrud (PhD) is a graduate from the University of Oslo, with a doctoral degree in Media and Communications. Her key research interests lie in two interlinked fields: research on Internet censorship and the regulation of content, and children and online risk.

Peter Suber

Peter Suber is an independent policy strategist for open access to scientific and scholarly research literature. Most of his work consists of research, writing, consulting, and advocacy.

Alexander Trechsel

Alexander H. Trechsel is Professor of Political Science and the first full-time holder of the Swiss Chair in Federalism and Democracy at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. At the Berkman Center, Trechsel will focus his research on the study of the transformation of representative democracy in the digital era.

Jessica Valenti

Jessica Valenti – called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world by The Guardian – is the author of three books: Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters, He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut”¦and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know, and The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women which has been made into a documentary by the Media Education Foundation. Jessica is also the founder of Feministing.com

Kevin Wallen

Presently, Kevin is actively involved with SET, a project which he plans to expand extensively. He also serves as Director of Public Relations for Innocence International, the brainchild organization of Reuben “Hurricane” Carter, which lobbies for the rights of wrongly imprisoned individuals.

Kit Walsh

Kit Walsh is the Clinical Instructional Fellow at the Cyberlaw Clinic of the Berkman Center. Kit’s clinical practice focuses on civil liberties, particularly free speech and privacy.

Heather Whitney

Heather Whitney is a Berkman fellow and J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, where she heads up Submissions for the Journal of Law and Technology. Heather received her B.A., summa cum laude, from UCLA in Philosophy (spending much of her time thinking about the intersection of ethics and emerging technologies). Prior to law school, she worked on Google’s Global Ethics and Compliance team for three years. During law school, she’s worked at the Federal Trade Commission, Jenner & Block's Washington D.C. office, and on Facebook's global policy team. She is currently writing an article examining whether we should rethink the ban on company unions, particularly in work environments like Google.

Alexandra Wood

Alexandra Wood is a Berkman Center fellow contributing to the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project.